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| ODPM (C)Target: £620 million by 2007-08, of which at least two thirds will be cashable.
| Profile (£m) By Year
| Total
(£m)
Targets
| Interim
Savings (£m)
—figures yet
to be audited
| Comments |
| ODPM (C) Efficiency Proposals | 2005-06
| 2006-07 | 2007-08
| Savings to date |
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| Administration | 8
| 16.5 | 25
| 0.05 | Merger of Internal Audit Services with Cabinet Office Audit team successfully completed. Admin funding in the line already reflects savings efficiencies.
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| Regional Development Agencies | 40
| 80 | 120
| 11.9 | Plans for achieving savings of £139.5 million (£120 million for ODPM) by 2007-08, were submitted in April 2005 and have been signed off by DTI and OGC. First reports from each of the eight RDAs and the LDA were submitted in October.
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| Social Housing: New Supply | 130
| 140 | 160
| | Housing Corporation (HC) strategy for investment partnering for new affordable housing was launched in August. HC also launched in March an innovative scheme to extend social housing grant to non-registered bodies. By widening the competition for grant, this should encourage better value for money.
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| Social Housing: RSL spend on capital works |
2 | 30
| 60 | 66.4
| National change agent now in place to establish network of local procurement consortia to maximise efficiencies throughout the supply chain. £33 million Efficiency Challenge Fund launched to facilitate consortia set up (five consortia have already won funding).
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| Social Housing: RSL management and maintenance
| 35 | 60
| 80 | 74.6
| ODPM commissioned a review of "systems thinking". Results of pilots testing its application to social housing are encouraging, and the report was launched in September.
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| Social Housing: RSL spend on commodities |
10 | 30
| 55 | 11.5
| National collective agent launched last year offering savings through joint procurement of commodity goods and services (telecoms, gas, office supplies etc). It has achieved well over 60% coverage of the RSL sector.
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| Fire and Rescue Services | 25
| 75 | 105
| | Integrated Risk Management Planning is now firmly embedded in all FRAs. The Audit Commission's Fire CPA reports were published at the end of July. CPA improvement planning now underway and providing major opportunity to reinforce efficiency messages and share good practice. Consultation on Annual Efficiency Statements closed on 5 October, subject to which FRAs' first reports should be made on 17 November.
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| Firelink: Operational Continuity | 8
| 8 | 10
| 1.5 | Phase 1 work is complete. This replaced high-risk items identified through an initial risk assessment process. As a result of negotiations this work has been completed for £1.5 million less than budget.
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| Homelessness1 | 21
| 58 | 125
| 15.7 | 2005-06 grant allocations have been made to local authorities and other agencies, linking funding more strongly to performance in tackling homelessness. National statistics confirm there have been sustained reductions in new cases of homelessness since the start of 2004 and show no further increase in the number of households in temporary accommodation since September 2004. With these positive changes occurring a year ahead of ODPM's projections we are on track to deliver.
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| Total (£m) | 279
| 497.5 | 740
| 181.7 |
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| 1 Homelessness: Added to programme in 2005-06 as contingency. New forecast/ target corrects error in data originally supplied so that it is now expressed in cumulative terms.
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